Dreams are just stories your brain makes up as a distraction.

[OldRooster]

They are a necessary distraction from the cellular maintenance that takes place while you sleep. Else the electrical signaling 'noise' that results from the maintenance would make you crazy. The dreams themselves don't mean anything. 80% of the science around sleep stages is needless complication that amounts to nothing of value.

There is one possible exception to the 'dreams don't mean anything' paradigm. It is likely that a sufficiently advanced intelligence can influence the dreams of humans, and that they sometimes influence humans this way. And/or certain electromagnetic frequencies can have a somewhat predictable effect on human dreams.

 

[FiendFiend]

i day dream like all day thats why i gotta be busy man

 

[iblamexyz]

They are a necessary distraction from the cellular maintenance that takes place while you sleep. Else the electrical signaling 'noise' that results from the maintenance would make you crazy. The dreams themselves don't mean anything. 80% of the science around sleep stages is needless complication that amounts to nothing of value.

There is one possible exception to the 'dreams don't mean anything' paradigm. It is likely that a sufficiently advanced intelligence can influence the dreams of humans, and that they sometimes influence humans this way. And/or certain electromagnetic frequencies can have a somewhat predictable effect on human dreams.

this a good answer

brain gets bored while we sleep so it starts making movies

 

[HtnceI]

I fuck and beat people up in my dreams

 

[OldRooster]

I fuck and beat people up in my dreams

You likely exhibit a preoccupation with such behavior while awake, and strongly formed circuitry related to this behavior. Obviously you are not going to dream in French if you don't speak French. You speak violence.

 

[Klasik616]

They are a necessary distraction from the cellular maintenance that takes place while you sleep. Else the electrical signaling 'noise' that results from the maintenance would make you crazy. The dreams themselves don't mean anything. 80% of the science around sleep stages is needless complication that amounts to nothing of value.

There is one possible exception to the 'dreams don't mean anything' paradigm. It is likely that a sufficiently advanced intelligence can influence the dreams of humans, and that they sometimes influence humans this way. And/or certain electromagnetic frequencies can have a somewhat predictable effect on human dreams.

This approach to understand dreams fails because the scientific paradigm of knowledge is physicalist and dreams are the opposite of that. The psychological explanation also fails when the dreams have nothing to do with yourself and look like regular life episodes without a deep meaning. Psychoanalists think the cause of dreams have to do with desire and this desire is being supressed in the real world, although not all dreams can be explained by this principle. To explain how are dreams possible we should ask first what perception is and if perception is entirely external or if it's adjusted by our intentions (see Brentano), desire and intentions are different.

 

[FiendFiend]

You likely exhibit a preoccupation with such behavior while awake, and strongly formed circuitry related to this behavior. Obviously you are not going to dream in French if you don't speak French. You speak violence.

jfl not true im fighting someone every other day in my dreams and i dont fight no one i only ever been in 1 fight

 

[futureschizo]

I dream about alot, I forget about it when I wake up though cant seem to recall it later in the day

 

[Klasik616]

this a good answer

brain gets bored while we sleep so it starts making movies

Our brain doesn't get bored. It's that existence is always attached to something. You can't stop existing, so you dream while you're unconscious. If you're *alive you have to be perceiving or thinking something. Death is an enigma, the ego death is possible? You cannot think you're dead, it's absurd.

 

[OldRooster]

I dream about alot, I forget about it when I wake up though cant seem to recall it later in the day

That is a feature not a bug. If your brain did not purge the dream memories, you would become overwhelmed by false memories.

This approach to understand dreams fails because the scientific paradigm of knowledge is physicalist and dreams are the opposite of that.

I don't understand why you think the mechanism I described is non physical. It is adaptive response to chemical reactions in the brain. Likely some special module in the brain that makes up stories when triggered by said chemical reactions

 

[Klasik616]

That is a feature not a bug. If your brain did not purge the dream memories, you would become overwhelmed by false memories.

If you read what defense mechanisms are, it's the brain trying to take care of yourself before you decide. It's actually a good thing to forget the dreams to not confuse dreams with human reality. For example the dreams when you go to school/college/job, if you believed what you did in the dream was real it would cause big problems.

 

[Klasik616]

That is a feature not a bug. If your brain did not purge the dream memories, you would become overwhelmed by false memories.


I don't understand why you think the mechanism I described is non physical. It is adaptive response to chemical reactions in the brain. Likely some special module in the brain that makes up stories when triggered by said chemical reactions

But you're supposing something like that exists as science has found other areas in the brain that work for some actions or skills. As far as I know, it has to do with the temporal lobe, specially the hipotalamus. But what we can do with this information? You're trying to describe something non physical with mater. I don't believe certain hormones can trigger a certain type of dreams, although the frequencies might work because they are received by the brain subconsciously. Once I read that scientists were working in an object cappable of "drawing" what a person saw in a dream, that's much better because it's connecting imagination with reality. I would have to find the article.